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'natural born killers' is about Mickey Knox and his girlfriend-wife Mallory Wilson. Both are lost souls with turbulent pasts who find each other and embark on a seductive, media-hyped killing spree. Commencing with the dual murder of Mallory's sexually abusive father and grossly negligent mother, the couple take off on a three-week killing spree across the country, telling everyone who they are so that they get the credit for their crimes. The media are immediately enthralled with the couple, especially Wayne Gale, the bloodthirsty host of a tabloid TV show who follows their every move. By the time the couple is arrested, they've become such huge media stars that the cops treat them more like celebrities than criminals. Even the maniacal limelight-hogging warden of the Batongaville State Prison, Dwight McClusky, is in awe. The slick police chief and sleazy media man both have personal growth in mind when capturing the duo. They plan to capitalize on this killing sensation. In doing so, they become utterly inhuman and are viewed nearly as bad, if not worse than the two criminals.

The media man, Wayne, wants a personal interview, after the Super Bowl nonetheless, with Mickey. The film plays out like a true farce. Mickey and Mallory cause total chaotic pandemonium in the chief's jail, where the two are more heroic than ever, and have created a bigger fan base. They eventually escape, leaving the chief to be basically "eaten alive" by his own prison that he so proudly created. Once free again, Mickey and Mallory are followed by media man Wayne. He has become so utterly obsessed with the phenomenon of the two, that he is willing to do anything for his career, even die. And that is exactly what happens. He is shot on camera, for a glorious, frenzied media finally. The two seem to just fade away and go about their existences.'Natural Born Killers' is not so much about the killers, however, as about the feeding frenzy they inspire. During the period of their rampage, they are the most famous people in America, and the media goes nuts. There are Mickey and Mallory fan clubs and T-shirts. The people Mickey and Mallory touch in the law industry are elated to be handling the case; it gives them a brush with celebrity, and a tantalizing whiff of the brimstone that fascinates some cops.about this movies:'natural born killers', written by quentin tarantino and starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield and Ashley Judd, is an over-the-top satire on America's worshipful fascination with tabloid criminals stars. Oliver Stone poses the following question: are people natural born menaces to society, or is it a result of systematic abuse from their environment while growing up? he switches from film to video, from color to black and white, from sitcom parody to newsreel parody, and from one film stock to another, trying to jar the audience out of its complacency with visual hyperbole.

Despite the range of oliver stone's body of work, his name remains synonymous with 'Natural Born Killers', a film notorious for both its content and its effect. It is still cited in murder cases as the trigger for teenage killing sprees, and is mentioned in dispatches whenever Hollywood is criticised for its levels of violence. this movie might have played even more like a demented nightmare if it hadn't been for the O.

J. Simpson case. it can be seen as an indictment of the way america is now: it is becoming a society more interested in crime and scandal than in anything else.'Natural Born Killers' has been likened to A Clockwork Orange by critics who seek another dark, violent satire to compare it with. Stylistically, the comparison does hold water. Stanley Kubrick's classic, which remains as provocative today as it was 23 years ago, pushed the envelope of film language much the same way Stone's movie does. As satire, though, 'NATURAL BORN KILLERS' isn't in the same league. The characters, particularly Tommy Lee Jones as the grotesque prison warden, are so frantically cartoonish that each horrific event lies at a safe remove from us. The movie is set on Bizarro World, its inhabitants and visuals so overheated, so overwrought, so over-everything, that nothing in it relates to us directly. IN THIS WAY THIS MOVIE SHOWS THE WAY PEOPLE ARE CONFRONTED WITH EXTREME VIOLENCE IN A WAY THAT gives us the opportunity to see it all as entertainment. even the characters of 'natural born killers' do experience their lives and their deeds as cheap entertainment: they are completely alienated from the real world.